The Sun. — London, England, 1826-09-15 00:00:00

THE TEMPLES. The= beautiful Church of the Two Temples is at this moment undergoing repair, and judging from the part already completed, there is good reasim to ex pect that iv will become a very highly ornamental feature when the workmen shall have finished their labours. The spaces between the buttresses Were occu pied by a wig shop, and the sacristy of the Church ; these are now removed and the whole of the south side is being eased with stone in the gothic style, in unison with the internal decorations of the building. Hitberto a coat of common plaster covered ,the exterior walls, and thus it will be at once conceived what a great im provement is about to be effected. The property. in the Church belongs to the two Temple's jointly, and is divided equally between them, by a line running from eastilto:west up the middle of the Church ; the north half being the property of the - Middle, Temple , and the south half that of the Inner Temple. The north halt was caged with, stone some fifty years ago or thereabouts, but the towers of the church were then left in their pristine state, covered with a coat of common plaster like the body of the church itself. The Inner fcmple, however, lately resolved to case their half of the church and the church towers, with stone in the same way that the church has been done ; and the Benchers of that Society set the workmen on that task without paying their Brethren of the Middle Temple the compliment of first communicating their design to them, or even asking whether it would or would not be . convenient to them to case their half of the towers with stone at the same time. Thus it happens that these beautiful towers are likely to remain greatly disfigured, solely in consequence of this want of respect, and cominon politeness, on the part of the Benchers of the Inner TeMple.— These towers form the most beautiful, most splendid, and most perfect specimen of intersected arches theie kingdoms can boast, and it would therefore be a circumstance of deep regret if the .Benchers of the Middle Temple, in a fit of most justifiable anger, should refuse to aid the Inner Temple in the prose cution of this work, and thus leave the towers dis figured ; one half resplendent with new Bath stone, and the other covered with common plaster, and that all black and dirty by age. We hope better things of the Benchers of the Middle Temple, as they are gentlemen of highly liberal and "ho nourable feelings, and quite alive to the interests and honour of the . Society they govern. Now, we beg . it to be remarked, that the Inner Temple is immensely rich, and the Middle compara tively poor. The latter is at this moment reparing, the magnificent and stately Hall of the, Society at an expence which at a moderate computation will reach 50001. The year before they built a new library, and are expending largo shins in the purchase of books, and would therefore fir the presenkhave willingly saved themselves the expence of casing . the chinch towers with - stone, but which option, how ever, the Inner Temple has thus taken from them; as. it seems not unlikely that they will be compelled to effect this improvement, however inadequate their funds may he , iust at this moment to hear it. In con segOence of the removal of the Sacristy, it became necessary to' erect 'another on the other side of the church, and to open 4 door-way through the oak wainscoting, which runs round it.s interior. As this removal 'Was effected at the desire and for accorn modation of the Inner Templer of cotlr:ie they bear the expellee ; and would it be believed that this wealthy society have erected a common deal door, land mean to paint it in imitation of oak, in order to save the additional 20 or 30 shillings that a real oaken door would have cost them ? The noble dining-hall of the Middle Temple: is now also undergoing repair. The roof has been com pletely taken off, and the decayed timbers replaced. A new lantern will be erected upon it, and every part of it properly cleansed anti repaired ; this roof is finished on the same fan as that of West minster Flail. The aides of the Hall . to the height of 15 or 20 feet, are panelled with oak, and each pope' contains the arms, properly emblazoned, of the diffe rent Readers of the Society, trout a few years beyond 1600 to.the present day. At the told of the Hall, and immediately ever the centre of the dais, there hangs a superb picture of Charles I. on horse-back, by Vandyck ; and at the opposite end a beautifully carved oaken skreen, extending right across, and stand ing abcut 20 or 25 feet high. There is no fire-place, and in the winter this noble building is warmed by an immense brinier, filled with charcoal, and which stands immediately under the lantern in the roof. A strange figure, arrayed in " palmer's weeds," pass. , eel through Canterbury hod week, doubtless on,a griniaV (if he was, SUM) to the shrine of some favour. ite Saint, on the Continent. A man dressed in sack• cloth, with his head shaved, without shoes or stockings and with books under, hie arm, arrived there on his way to the Continent. Doubtless be was a Catholic devotee. His strange appearance tecited much env prise.—Kent Herald, A FEMALE VETEII A K.—Mary . Hyde, now living at Chorleybottorns, in Lancashire, is 94 years of age. On Saturday, September 2, she buried the last of her children, in the whole, nineteen sons and one daugh ter. The day fbllowing she said, " Now I have buried all my children, and my two husbands ; thanks be to God, I have seen them all removed from sorrow and care, and lam ready to follow." She stated that she lost ten sons in the army and navy. " My eldest boy," she said, " lost his let!, in an engagement with De A m irtie. He died in the West Indies. f was not 16 when he was h olm Two were killed at Gtuulaloupe, two with Nelson at the Nile—four of my sons were Chelsea, one having lost a leg, there ; two died at and the other an arm. One died at Newcastle, in the 20th regiment ; another at the same place, on board the Tender ; and the tenth lost his life in going to Dub lire," She was born in Meeklenburgh, and came to England with a Mrs. *Mullin, when eleven years of age. She says her first husband was in the slave trade, but afterwards became a soldier. sh e was nine, months with him at Gibraltar, and then went to Ame rica, and landed at Boston. 1 was never in the field, (she said,) whilst the battle la sted, but 1 have been to P lunder afterwards. . They won't allow t hem to plunder her is deal of 0»o now as they dill in those days ; t first field of haul sitinn to it now. 1 can recollect the e `recollect very well. I have reason tore collect it ; but on Cleirl cson. head canno t contain all—it was soot • le-fiehters tw , wh l o was wounded there by one of their bus lay conctuded. I have been u p on many fields besides that, but never was wounded sin ce ; my husband re ccived a wound in America, and died afterwards in England. I was with him eight years and thre e months." This veterall received 18d. per week from the parish of Pendleton, near. Manchester. She re cently applied for acme increase of allowance ; but, teliatneful to relate, they threatened to place her in the vorkhouse.—Birminghom Chronicle. FUNDS-SINKING FUND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. St R-•-. 4 am one of those who think that expediency requires that a fair regard to the justice of the case sill sanction , the project, so much discussed at the present moment, that the Public Furids, secured and guaranteed as they are, should no longer enjoy ex emption from those direct imposts which have hitherto been assessed exclusively on land and houses. I differ, however, Mr. Editor, from you and others, who think that the Poor Rate is the burden 'which ought, preferatly to any other, to be shifted from the shoulders of the landholder to those of the fund holder. All practieal men seem to be of opinion that the mischief of the Poor Laws is not in the principle but in the administration of them ; and some recent writers on the subject,who have drawn their knowledge from experience, seem to me to have established this point beyond the necessity of any future question or controversy. - The law seems also to have contem plated this view of the matter, and has confined the distribution of the Poor Fund to those from whom - it is levied, as to that sort of stewardship which, is more likely than any other to be faithful and vigilant in ad ministering. it.. It would, therefore, be contrary to experience, and to all sound views pOlicy and legis lation, to raise from one body of men a large revenue, and consign its administration to another, who could not be expected to be properly interested in the econo mical distribution of it. -The Poor Rate is also, I fear, as far as habit, necessity, and legal enactment can make it so, a permanent impost, while the fund holders are the most fluctuating of any body of pro- , prietors that I. am' acquainted with. As far, then, as the Poor Rate is concerned, we have no resource but to leave it as we find it : as it has its origin yin local necessity, it must be collected locally and distributed by local agency. But I do not mean to .confine myself to starting difficulties to the execution of a project which I am among the first to think necessary, and , if I read aright the signs of the times,-not far from its accomplishment. No ; I, like yourself, am not without my remedy for the financial disease which afflicts us, and I think you will like my suggestion, when I tell you that it is to deduct the Sinking Fund, whatever it may be thought proper to make its amount (per centum) . ,_ from the dividends iayable on funded property. You will see at once 'iat some of the first principles of good financial legis tion recommend this scheme. 'The mischief bears its own remedy—the poison carries its own antidote. If the stability and vahte of..funded property depend, on the existence of an expensive machinery for, its gradual redemption, • why should not that expellee be supplied by those who arc exclusiVely benefited by it ? The land bears a variety, of burdens from which other property is exempt ; and it would be no boon, but an act of justice, to free it from a burden which it cannot.but think odious and vexatious, as its object is to give a fictitious value to ,a rival which it has always had the mortification of seeing treated with the par tiality of acknowledged favouritism, and petted like a spoiled beauty. • ' • Pray, Mr Editor, give insertion to this letter, or turn this ursine progeny of mine into any shape you like, and give it to the public, if you please, as your own idea. My hope is, that, as yours is a Ministerial Journal, though very fair and candid withal, and put forth with .a good deal, of vigour and talent, my. sug gestion may. penetrate (where its author can 'never hope to find himself) to the presence of some of those who have kindly undertaken the charge of our na tional c o ncerns; and who, if they are: the civil crea tures that I take them to be, and moreover, if they find as much difficulty in squaring the national ac counts as I do my private ones, will thank either yi or me for the hint. London, Sept. 10. SENEX. BLACKBURN, SEPT. 13. (FROM OUR, OWN CORRESPONDENT.) At six o'clock last night, the merry bells in the tower of our old Parish Church, announced the arrival of 1)r. Moratield, the Bishop of Chester ' and at ten this morning, his Lordship attended our New Parish Church, (St. Mary's) and consecrated it. After ser vice, the Bishop preached a most energetic sermon from Heb. x. 25. It is calculated that there were nearly four thousand persons in the church during the service, alid, although such an immense number were congregated together, yet, the greatest decorum prevailed. The day was line, and most of the respectable families of the neighbour hood visited the town on this occasion ; these, with a vast number of country persons in their " church going clothes," made the town a scene of bustle. The churc h has been six years in building, the expellee of which is collected through nearly all the townships in this parish, and with the new vicarage and burial ground, will cost upwards of 42,0001. There is no amendment yet in the thef o wages .poor starving weavers, notwithstanding some manufacturers say,Jhat sixpence a cut, (24 or 26 yards) advance, might as well Aie given, without loss by the manufac turers ; but as they are not unanimous, the weavers, in all probability, must linger on in their wretchedness, unless Parliamentary interference put a stop to their sufferings, SOW manufacturers have establishments here, and at Preston, where theysive from fifteen to twenty-five per cent. more for weaving the same quality of cloth. file weavers certainly are better off than they were four months ago, but still infull work they, cannot support their families, and as tile" London Relief Committee ' have ordered gratuitous assistance to be discontinued, their privations will be increased. The London Com mittee talk of having engaged Mr. M'Adam to survey the roads and find employment for the distressed ope ratives, but how can this gentleman find employment for even a small portion of the fi nt riecti thousand individuals who have been assisted with food in this ownship—many of whom are women , girls, and childrenY It would be well if the Committee could adopt some other sort of employment or relief; and supposing the women and girls were taken to the roads, (though such theythey work on them in winter ? Let the wages of weaving be advanced, and then subscriptions may cease as useless, for the weavers generally would prefer working for what they get than live on charity. A labourer in the employ of Mr. Brayton, of Alk bank, n ear Whitehaven, was killed on'Tuesday by a bull belonging to his master. He bad been sent t o drive the a n i ma l out of a field where be was grazing and though he was armed with a pitchfork, the bull at tacked him violeutly, threw him down, and rolled over hint several times. So int ent was t h e enrNged animal upon his destruction, that th e ef f orts o f a man , who wi tnessed the affair, did n o t di vert hi m f rom hi s put pose for a moment, till life was entirely extinct.— , Dorset Chronicle, PRICES OF STOCKS Tllll Rank Stock shut 3 per Cent. Red. shut 3 per Cent. Cons. 3% per Cent. Ditto Red, shut 4 per Cent. New .9.5 4% Ditto, Scrip maw... Rank Long Ann. India Stock s• • Ditto Bonds ' 28 prn. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK'. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 24.17 1816 17pm. Ditto 5OO 2d.......16 19 pm. Ditto Small 2d. 17 19 pm. Ditto Advettised Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for Account 7910fili 'NDS AT ONE 0 CLOCK. PRICES OF FOREIGN F Austrian Bonds, 6 per cent. ... Brazilian Bonds 62% li Buenos Ayres Bonds . , ........... 58 Chilian Bonds, 6 per ct. ..... .... Colombian Bonds — Ditto, 1824 ' l4 4414 li Danish, 3 per cent. ............ 671t1i Greek Bonds — Ditto, 1224 12% Guatemala — Mexican Bonds 4l) 50 49 5014 Do. 1825... 60 59% 9 t) Lii% 60% PRICES OF SUARK Anglo Mexican Mining Company Brazilian Mining CompanY General Steam Navigation Compa PRICE OF IRISH Bank Stock 24444 Gov. Stock, 3% per cent. fl4Bil,flY, Ditto, New 4 per Cent. 93% Oov. Deb. 3% per cent....... /15 Consols, 3 per cent 'loyal Canal Stock - Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4, per cent. - Ballast Office Deb. 4 per cent Arrived. Due. O America o O Brazil i► O Buenos Ayres : O Donaghadee U 1 Dublin I Flanders 0 1 France O Gottenburgh l ____.— Neapolitan, 182 t Peruvian Bonds — Portuguese Bonds — Prussian, 5 per cent. Ditto, New — Russian New, sp. c. 82 . 5,4 Spanish; 1821 9% io ISti — French Reines, 5 p. c —l. —c: -- Exchange —t. —4; —3 per cent. —Exchange —L —c. i AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Paid. 'Pershare. • .C67, 15 15 71 2814 28 any lb 2 ,TOCKS, SRPT.I2. St. Patrick Mint'. (per share) Royal Irish Ditto 2 National Ditto Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank Provincial Ditto Iloyiiriah Mine Imjierlal Mine Mining Co. of Ireland . Commercial Buildings I LS. Arrived. Due. 2 Guernsey & Jersey, 1 Harnbargh 1 Rolland 0 ti Jamaica 0 0 Leeward Islands 4) Lisbon 1 0 Malta 0 1 Waterford U lIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.' Morning 2 minutes after 2. I Evening 22 minutes after 2. (11 bt LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. 15, 1826. We have authority to state that Athens has not been taken by the Turks, according to the reports which have prevailed on this subject. The town has been abandoned by the inhabitants, from ap prehension of the Turks ; but the Acropolis still remains garrisoned by a small Greek force. We received last night the Paris Papers of Tuesday, and the Etoile dated Wednesday, from which we inake,the following extracts. It will be seen that the accounts from Constantinople come down to the 11th ult., being one day later than the last intelligence, and contain proofs of the continued perseverance of the SULTAN in the great work of Reform which he has undertaken. He has created a Minister of Police with the power of life and death, and is forming a body guard of the sons of the grandees ; thus securing the fidelity of the most powerful men of his empire, by the double incentive of gratified ambition, and parental solicitude for the safety of their sons, who may be cousidered as hostages in the hands of the SULTAN. CONSTANTINOMV, AUG,. i I.—The Government daily follows up its system of reform ; and, act ording to the suggestion of the Grand Vizier, a Minister of Police ha, been created, who, independently, of the privileges of a Dacha, has been invested With power of life and death. — The organization of the new troops is pushed on with activity, and appears to give much pleasure to the young people of the capital, as they have been seen some days back imitating the European exercise with sticks, in de fault of muskets. Even the Sultan himself partakes with enthusiasm in the new exercise. • He chews himself with the Selictur Aga and Berber Basehi, and other favourites, in the court-yard of the Seraglio, and exercises himself in the manual discipline of the Franks. His favourite plan , seems to be the formation of a noble troop of body guards, composed of the sons of the grandees of the empire. He will have in them, at the same time, so many hostages kr the loyalty of their fathers. They have already taken into the Seraglio a hundred, who are exercised with the young heir to the throne. PAIUS, sm.'''. 19. The Holy Father, by a Bull, dated 12th of May last, has authorised the translation of the chapter of St. John of Jerusalem, from Catena to Ferrara. A Council of State of the order has passed a decree for the execution of this Bull. In consequence of this decree, the Knights departed on the 31st July, from Catena, with their archives and pro perty, and proceeded to their new destination by the Adriatic, with the exception of the Commander Vela , Presi dent of the Chapter, and Commander of the Order, who took the route of Naples. After a tedious and disagreeable voyage, the convoy of the Chapter arrived on the 26th August on the side of the month of the Cioro. The Commander Vela, arrived early in September at Ferrara. The Bishop of Terraeina died, on the 17th of last month, at Naples. The following is from the Augsburg Gl' i z e tte:—." A cou rier, who was despatched on the 30th of , Jtdy, by way of Odessa, bringing letters from Messrs. de Woronzow and Ribeaupierre, has given information to M. Min ziak y , that the Turkish Commissioners were at first unwilling to sub mit to quarantine, as contrary to the precepts of their reli gion; that they afterwards declared Akermann too distant from the frontiers, anti proposed in consequence to carry on the conferences ciir the left banks or the Prutb. M. de Minziaky went immediately to the Reis Effendi, calling on him to expedite proper orders to the Commissioners. It is hoped that,in spite of the ambiguous, evasive,and laconic answers attributed to the Reis Effendi, the Porte will interpose no more obstacles to the opening of the eon- rereriees.'' We cannot pretend, like the Augsburg Gazelle, to know every day the diplomatic relations of the two parties, but we try, in general, to give our readers nothing but cer tain intelligence. It i s very o b v ious that, to relate, as re cent, transactions that h ave occur red a long time ago, is to a certain degree to d e c e i ve t h e public, who require results, and not conjectures. We have already announced the opening of the conferences. ) Prince Metternich was expected at Frankfort on the Bth. Lady Cochrane, who has, we are informed, resided for some months at n country house at Chatelaine, in the neighbourhood of Geneva, is so seriously indisposed, as to Occasion extreme uneasiness. Bank Action., 1 ; 4 5c; aniali Loan, 461 f. Falcate,' FuNnit.-1;;;:i Er r lg.—Five per Cents. c l ose d at 081. 49e.; Th ree 2012 f. 50e. Rents. depwerapCeie.ititt7s..;t66lfgc. Dutch Papers to the 13th instant were receirei last night. The Prince of ORANGE, Prince FREDERICK and his Consort, arrived at Brussels on the 10th instant. It is stated in these P a pers, that " Travellers Who come from Russia speak in the highest terms of praise of the conduct of the Emperor NICIIOI4AS. He has undertaken the Herculean labour of cleansing the Augean Senate of the system of bribery and cor ruption, which, since the time of CATHERINE, has pervaded every branch of the administration. Thus, for instance, it has been discovered that the fleet is not built of the oak and other sound timber provided by the Government at a vast expense, but that this has been embezzled by the persons employed, and the ships built of ordinary fir, which is very perishable; for which reasyn the English call such ships, which can hardly last one voyage, by the name of coffins. In order, therefore, to discover which are fit for sea, and which not, they are sent in small squadrons to the North Sea ; is is the true reason for these expeditions." This appears to be a strange reason for sending ships to sea. It is only in harbour, and when dismantled, that it can be accurately ascertained whether ships are in a state fit for service, or can be made so by a repair, the expence of which would not be greater than the value of the ship. It is by assign ing reasons such as these, for the equipment of squadrons, that we should be led to suspect some other motive bad influenced the Russian Cabinet, which it wished to conceal. M. EYNARD has written to the central Greek Committee in - Brussels, a letter, dated Geneva, Aug. 30. The Greek fleet, consisting of 140 sail, was at Hydra. No tidings had been received of Lord COCHRANE. A marine Cadet arrived, a few days ago, from Greece, who has brought the following information : " Colonel Rothiers, of Antwerp, who is commissioned to search for antiquities in the Archipelago, has been twice to Athens, where, by special permission of the Greek Pro visional, he was enabled to enter the citadel, which, since the beginning of the contest, has been inaccessible to strangers. He has made all possible drawings of the archi tecture of the temples of Minerva, Themis, &c. At Rhodes he has caused all the monuments of the ancient Order of St. John of Jerusalem, now called Knights of Malta, to he designed by Mr. P. J. Witdoek, of Antwerp. For these three centuries nobody has thought of making drawings of the edifices of that ancient end heroic order. He passed some hours in the Mosque„ formerly the Church of St. John. Mr. Rothiers hopes soon to return, and will publish his valuable collection for the use of the academies of the kingdom. There are 54 folio drawings, to which more may perhaps be added. The work may be considered as a sequel to' the History of the Knights of Malta, by the Abbe de Vertot, who never was at Rhodes." ASIsTERDAM, SEPT. 12.—Exchange on London, 40 5 to 40 6 ; 2 months, 40 3 to 40 4. Brussels Papers of the 13th instant, have also come :o hand this morning. The question of the Navigation of the Rhine seems by no means settled ; and, if we may believe the Frankfort account of the state of Russia, the affairs o that Government are not in a very secure condition. The following are extracts : BitUSSELS, SEPT. 9. A British Cabinet Messenger from London, passed through this city yesterday, on his way to St. Petersburgh with dispatches. Our differences with Prussia, relative to the navigation of the Rhine, are far from being terminated. Austria, which has intervened in this 'Lair, is said to be much dis- used at the diplomatic note of our Minister for Foreigl Affairs. A letter from Frankfort, of the 30th of August, gives a discodraging picture of the moral situation of Russia, and especially of the . Capital. There is much discontent, says the letter, among the Nobility, and a degree of embarrass ment is observed in the proceedings of the Government. SEPT. 12. His Royal Highness Prince Frederick left this city at midnight,to inspect the camp at Ravee this morning. The Princess, his consort, also left us this morning with her whole suite, for the Hague, whence their Royal Highnesses will set out to-morrow for Berlin. Accounts from Smyrna of the 28th July have reached us this morning through the medium of the Frankfort papers of the Bth inst., which publishes, from the Oriental Spectator, the following account of the fate of the cannon and military stores landed at Napoli by the English brig Skylark. We receive all news through this channel with some suspicion ; but the circumstances are so clearly stated in this case, that we fear there can be little doubt of ie accuracy of the report. SMYRNA, JULY 28. Captain Davis ' commanding the English brig th e Sky lark, sailed again from Napoli on the 17th 'July, after hav ing landed his cargo of cannon and military stores. The Greeks received with contempt this tribute of European enthusiasm, saying to the Captain, in a reproachful tone, " What have we to do with cannon ? It is money that we want—it is money that you should have brought us." They suffered these cannon and their carriages to be landed on the beach, and a month afterwards, when the Skylark sailed, the sand was beginning to cover them. The inhabitants of the neighbouring houses came every morn ing to break up the carriages to light the ,fires in their kitchens. Captain Davis sailed for Smyrna : he had some pack ages on board, and furniture to the amount of 30,000 piastres. On the 20th July, at day-break, he was sur rounded, a Capodoro, by seven mistics ; resistance was vain. The deck was soon covered by 300 pirates, who stole all they could lay their hands upon—money, gogds, arms, provisions, clothes, cordage, sails—every thing, in a reach gave them un provisions Smyrna. to meet word, was carried off. They even stripped the Officers ort and sailors of th e s hi r t s they wore. The unfortunate crew were two days without food, but had afterwards the g ood f anforAmtheeir f support corvette, till theyh c h kindlycould We have received this forenoon the Journal de St. Petersburgli of the 29th ult., and Hamhurgh Papers of the Bth inst. T he , accounts from Moscow co me down to the 22 d Au g ust. His Ma j est y the EMPEROR h a s recovered from an indisposition whi c h s h e h a d suffered under. , e D n i j t o i ye: t l perfect health , and the E mpress ALEXAN w Some regulations have been published at St. Peters burgh, under which men and w omen b an i s h e d to Siberia are to be allowed to marryothers who are not cr i m i na l s in that country. The Commission appointed to investigate the smuggling of gold at Ekaterenen has closed its labours, and some of its members have been rewarded for their zeal with the Insignia of various Orders. By the following article from Stockholm it would appear that the harvest in Sweden proves very deficient, and that the Potatoe crop will also be short : STOCKHOLM, AUG. 29. It appears now, that the Winter Corn has suffered more in Sweden by the drought than could be foreseen on the 22d July, when hopes were still entertained from the ap pearance of the crops; serious apprehensions are likewise entertained for the Potatoe crop. It may, perhaps, be time to avert, by importation, the scarcity that threaten* many districts, where they already begin to speak of bread made of bark of trees. STOCKHOLM, SEPT. 1. The Gazette of to-day contains a Royal Proclamation of Aug. 31, by which, on account of the deficiency in the harvest, the duty on the importation from abroad of the following articles for consumption is reduced, viz. ;--On Barley, to one rix-dollar, 24 schillings ; on Oats, to one rix-dollar, and in Pease to two rix-dollars, per ton; Corn of this description already in warehouses, in Swedish ports, is included. It is said, that the Tapperhelen and Chapman, men-01 war, sold last year, may be expected back from America, at Gothenburg. BERLIN, SEPT. 6. On the 3d, His Majesty left Konigsburg to review the coops at Stutgardt. EXCH•NGIS ON LONDON* HA MBURGH, SErr. 8.-36. 9.—Two months, 36. 6. PETERSIGIAGH, AUG. 25.-9. 13-32. VIENNA, AUG. 20.—Three months, 10. 13. bursto, SLIT. I.—Three months, 6. 19k. BERLIN, Sm. s.—Three months, 7. 31. At a very late hour , this afternoon we have received he Homburgh Correspondent of Saturday, the 9th ust., from which we have only time to make the follow- ing extracts : COPENHAGEN, SEPT. 5. The Naiad corvette, lately returned from the West dies, has brought per account of Government, 160,000 piastres in gold, which are to be sent to London for par ment of the interest and part of the principal of the Loan contracted for in that city. Great activity now prevails in the Royal Doek-Ya r i la " 2 ships of the line of 80 guns, a frigate of 50 guns, sn" a brig of .16 guns, are on the stocks. ITAMBURGII, SEPT. S. The accounts from Courland are very melancholy. The corn is parched up; what fruit has escaped the caterpillurei falls off from the heat. The cattle suffer from lII° mer (S u m , water, and it is feared that disease will brea k out a t them in the Autumn. In Esthonia the been good, but the other kinds of corn pulse and fruit cosh) have almost wholly failed, as well as hay is very scanty. The accounts from the Culice s " are also unfavourable. rye harvest nos Private letters from St. Petersburgh, noW that it was generally understood that the would take place on Sunday the 3d ingt. In the letter which we inserted in our Paper 4)1 Tuesday from a Correspondent, who signed himself " Fox-hunter," some arguments were used in reply to our Article of Saturday last, upon the necessity 4 throwing part of the burdens of the Country upon the Funds ; and in a preceding column of our Paper of this day will be found a very sensible letter from another Nish to direct e t t o l rr i Cor respondent upon the same subject, to which we wou ld v a h tt o e i n ve t i v o e i r t , of a Reactor p o p t e tr arto il Both these i e esp P"c onde t i l l i t:, founded their arguments, so far as they are in oppo ,i tion to our suggestions, upon the supposition that ou r recommendation was confined to charging the Fund' with the payment of a part of the sums raised for the relief of the poor ; and to rest their objection to thi' measure principally on the assumption that the achni" nistration of the Revenue thus paid in aid of the Pow . Rates drawn from the land, would rest with those who would not be interested in the proper distribution of it• Now we deny that our proposition was confined to the charging the Funds with part of the Poor Rates. Th e gist of our argument was, that as property in the Fond s is considered as secure as any other property, it 0 0 0 not to be exempted from taxes rendered necessarY fu i r the protection and security of the whole State; An u we added, that we also saw no reason why it should . be exempted from contributing towards the relief of t h e e we eontetulel fl Poor. The principle, however, which bear a Pa rt t , for, was that property in the Funds should In, j ,i„, t , the national burdens; anti the mode of accomPtl3 Dot formed but a secondary part of the consideration. n admitting, for argument's sake, that our proP asiti° rt of solely pointed to the charging the Funds ' Ol °P ; t o it tile Poor Rates, we cannot admit for an Oh ° o n the wo uld be transferring the administration of ~~ - 1 0 0 so raised to those who had no interest in 'i t ' 1 ,4• are the holders of Stock—are they not th e s o d owners and house-occupiers of the King dwu ? OW • ' are not these the persons charged with the o ? Iw nistration of the affairs connected with the Poer So far from adding to the evils;which we are f°l ote to admit exist in the administration of the po or i ere o Funds, we contend that it would in a powe rful • it ro dent tend to the correction of these abuses, by a to t h e a greater object with men of property to 3 tl e .U . , es , old concerns of the Poor in their respective p los'l contr i " to check the expenditure towards which they Luria buted from property in the Funds as well l's e . o .‘ e rty Many a man of property in the Funds, es Pr n i , i to to in land is too small to render it an object al to wer e parish affairs would do so , if his funded proper t Y f the liable to a deduction, regulated y the sol°o pt , Poor Rates of the Kingdom : anbd thus, w! e vinced, a more intelligent and corre ct admonsi of the Poor Funds would ensue 'des. * th is We are by no means, however, mgotte“ to well be Pat , o b j e ct, as threw it out as appearing to us to obje ct, : but If th e its as expedient, at the present tone ; , by l ot which we contend for can be accem plishett 0 et ivo• which are considered less objectionable, , we 81 lette r cate them. hose rl lent w The proposal of our Correspont v o, • we believe no appears in our Paper to-day, is .6t entitled to much consideration. I for slit' be t '''. it As the Sinking Fund is m ail - 48111e( ot h e proposes that the al all"' d id to of the Fund-holder, f the sums r should be raised from the a mount Q